# Editing Titles to be 'Artist - Title'

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/editing-titles-to-be-artist-title/2477
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 10, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/editing-titles-to-be-artist-title/2477 "2005-11-10T04:23:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![kdeemer](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/8baadc/32.png) [@kdeemer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kdeemer)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/editing-titles-to-be-artist-title/2477/1 "2005-11-10T04:23:23Z")

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How can I automatically change the Titles (not the filenames) of an album to 'Artist - Title'? Since the Artist and original Titles are captured, I would think this would be straight forward. But I can't find a way to do it.

Ken D

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2005, 7:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/editing-titles-to-be-artist-title/2477/2 "2005-11-10T07:32:49Z")

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You can create a [new action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/2).

_Action type:_ **Format value**  
_Field:_ **TITLE**  
_Formatstring:_ **%artist% - %title%**

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/editing-titles-to-be-artist-title/2477/3 "2026-02-09T12:19:30Z")

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